Tag: forgiveness

Celebrating forgiveness. The prompt of the weekend is celebrating forgiveness. Well this is having me stumped, and Robusta does not help. When in trouble ask mama, and my 75yr. Old mama has a simple rule..(She is a math teacher) that is write the data out, then identify the constant and calculate the unknown. “Forgiveness” seems …

Off went her weight, Off went her pinched face, Off went her long tresses...with them like the strength that Samson lost, she lost the resentment she harboured, the yearning and the disappointment. Somehow he did not matter anymore nor did his indifferent behaviour hurt. No more were there cycles of hurt, forgiveness and Karmic bondages, …

Permission to forgive ourselves At the Landmark forum, we come across lot of stuff. But usually what we are dealing with is grudges not let gone, and wrongs we have not forgiven. Both wrongs done to us, and we have done to others, still worse is our inability to forgive ourselves. So many of us …

Kurt Vonnegut says,”of all the words of mice and men the saddest are,’It might have been.” Every Toastmaster has three speeches, one that we prepared, one that was delivered and finally one that we wish we had delivered. This thing applies to many situation in our lives. We all do things that we desperately wish …

In the Prince of Thorns Mark Lawrence writes “Tell me, tutor” I said.”Is revenge a science or an art?” Well ever wondered what it is? Actually I have. like moments of kneading the dough always seems to find events that elicit revenge. Pounding the dough somehow seem to release the anger. There are times when …

Demolishing The FirewallFor a longtime I felt I was dealing with anger, one day it occurred that I was in the wrong war. That is anger was not the issue resentment was.Resentment is a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistant ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult or injury. When anger has no …